Reader Gary Kampel motivated me to take on a project I’d been meaning to get to for years. That motivation took this form: My older sister shipped me a box of old double-sided 78 RPM shellac records ...

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A 20-something Alabama man may be sitting on a goldmine with thousands of 78 RPM records he inherited from his grandfather. Or. maybe not. Now it’s time for the thrill of the search and research. A 78 ...

On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, which seeks to ...

What would you do if you bought an old record from a thrift store on a whim, only to later learn it had been made by a group associated with the Ku Klux Klan? That’s the situation a Lansing man ...

Amanda Petrusich's fascination with 78 RPM records and the obsessives who collect them led her to the bottom of the Milwaukee River. Credit: Bret Stetka In spring 2011, New York music journalist ...

The following is an excerpt from Pitchfork contributor Amanda Petrusich 's new book Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records, which is out now via ...

Back in the mid-90s most local music stores heeded the consensus that vinyl was dead and stopped carrying it—not an unreasonable decision, particularly considering that the major labels had abandoned ...

(May 5, 2016) Be careful using the old cliche "records are made to be broken" in the company of Bradley Reeves. The co-founder of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS) has devoted ...

DEAR JERRY: Because of the popularity of the 45 rpm singles in the 1950s, which label was the first to cut back on the production of 78s? DEAR WILL: You may recall my column referencing how Columbia, ...

In Do Not Sell At Any Price, Amanda Petrusich details the extreme measures collectors take in pursuit of rare 78s. "You can still find quite a few... Music Journalist Chronicles The 'Wild Obsessive ...